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Stop the Train
First edition
AuthorGeraldine McCaughrean
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical fiction
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
18 October 2001
Pages238 pp
ISBN978-0-19-271901-0
OCLC47271408
LC ClassPZ7.M1286 St 2001
Followed byPull Out All the Stops! 

Stop the Train is a 2001 children's novel by Geraldine McCaughrean. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award,[1] as well as being shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Stockton Children's Book of the Year.[2][3]

  1. ^ Nestlé Children's Book Prize Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards
  3. ^ "Children vote to pick their favourite book". The Northern Echo. 13 March 2003. Retrieved 19 May 2008.

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